Parents: Civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black

Parents: Civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black
Obama makes personal appeal on trade before key House vote
Search for escaped convicts from New York prison enters seventh day
2 charged with conspiring with Boston man to help IS group
Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted in pimping trial
Obama makes personal appeal on trade with key vote in House
Two U.S. men charged with beheading plot to help Islamic State
Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state
Union: Hackers have personnel data on every federal employee
House panel OKs bill punishing State over Benghazi response

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Obama makes personal appeal on trade before key House vote

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 10:28 AM PDT

President Barack Obama made an unusual, personal 11th-hour appeal to dubious Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House vote on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks.

Search for escaped convicts from New York prison enters seventh day

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:52 AM PDT

Police hunting two escaped convicts for a seventh day on Friday swarmed the heavily wooded area near an upstate New York prison as more details unfolded about a female prison worker's role in their breakout. New York State Police used Facebook on Friday to broadcast a refined description of the convicted killers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, changing details about their height, weight and hair color, and plastering the site with photographs of their tattoos. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor in the tailor shop at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, was being questioned about her possible role in helping the prisoners escape, authorities said.

2 charged with conspiring with Boston man to help IS group

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:39 AM PDT

Two men were charged Friday with conspiring to help the Islamic State group by plotting with a Boston terror suspect to kill U.S. citizens to support the objectives of the terrorist organization.

Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted in pimping trial

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 10:26 AM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn had a caustic reaction as four years of legal battles involving sex charges on two continents ended without a single conviction: "All that for this?" From a sordid New ...

Obama makes personal appeal on trade with key vote in House

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 08:17 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made an unusual, personal 11th-hour appeal to dubious fellow Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House vote on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks.

Two U.S. men charged with beheading plot to help Islamic State

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:35 AM PDT

Prosecutors charged two U.S. men on Friday of plotting to help the Islamic State militant group by beheading Americans, after an investigation that led law enforcement officers to shoot a suspect dead last week in Boston. The case follows a handful of so-called "lone wolf" attacks in the United States and Canada since last year by people whom authorities said were inspired by Islamic State, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq and has vowed attacks on the West. The men, Nicholas Rovinski, 24, of Rhode Island, and David Wright, 25, of Massachusetts, are accused of making plans with Wright's uncle, Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, to kill the organizer of a Mohammad cartoon exhibit in Texas in May, and later to target Massachusetts police, a U.S. Department of Justice statement said.

Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 10:11 AM PDT

Two activists strapped themselves on Friday to the anchor chain of a Shell Royal Dutch Shell vessel docked in Washington state that will be part of a fleet sent north to Alaska to resume drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. The women used camping gear and hammocks to attach themselves to the massive chain on the barge in Bellingham, Washington, north of Seattle, the activist group ShellNo said. Both are students at Western Washington University, KIRO-TV reported.

Union: Hackers have personnel data on every federal employee

Posted: 11 Jun 2015 04:50 PM PDT

Hackers stole personnel data and identity numbers for every federal employee, union says.

House panel OKs bill punishing State over Benghazi response

Posted: 11 Jun 2015 12:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over White House objections, a House panel approved a bill Thursday that withholds hundreds of millions of dollars from the State Department until it produces more documents to lawmakers investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.